Carronia
Carronia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Menispermaceae. Its native range is New Guinea, northern and eastern Australia.

Greg Tasney · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MenispermaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Carronia on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
4 occurrences- Pleistocene75%
- Holocene25%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Carronia and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Carronia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
174 taxa- Acacia4 sites
- Alphitonia4 sites
- Anacardiaceae4 sites
- Argyrodendron4 sites
- Asteraceae4 sites
- Cardwellia4 sites
- Casuarinaceae4 sites
- Chenopodiaceae4 sites
- Cissus4 sites
- Cunoniaceae4 sites
- Cyathea4 sites
- Cyperaceae4 sites
- Davalliaceae4 sites
- Dicksonia4 sites
- Drynaria4 sites
- Elaeocarpus4 sites
- Eucalyptus4 sites
- Euodia4 sites
- Exocarpos4 sites
- Flindersia4 sites
- Hydrocotyle4 sites
- Loranthaceae4 sites
- Macaranga4 sites
- Machaerina4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Carronia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 4 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Carronia
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Greg Tasney
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Carronia was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Carronia”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMenispermaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mueller 1875